The American Printer: A Manual of Typography: Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.MacKellar, Thomas
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The American Printer: A Manual of Typography: Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc.
MacKellar, Thomas
Graphic design (Typography); Printing -- United States -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Printing industry -- United States
Compound words, 64, 65, 331.
Contents, rules for, 135.
Continuous sheet, printing from a, 242.
Contrast of colours, 289-292.
Conversation in a printing office to be avoided, 234.
Copy, casting off, 223-226.
takes of, should be small, 221.
to be carefully prepared, 204.
Copyholder, illustrated, 309.
Copyrights, how to secure, 333-335.
application to be made to Librarian of Congress, 333.
cannot be granted upon trade-marks or labels, 335.
duration of, 334.
form of notice, 334.
penalty for false notice, 334.
renewal of, 334.
Cork bearers, 259.
Corner quadrates, illustrated, 307.
Corpus, German name for Long Primer, 54.
Correcting in the metal, 207-211.
directions for, 208-210.
rules for, in a companionship, 231, 232.
Coster, (see Koster,) 9-11.
Cottrell & Babcock’s cylinder presses, 239.
Counting out sheets, 297.
Courtesy, importance of, 123.
Creases and wrinkles in paper, how to remove, 263.
Cross-bar, how to avoid springing, 148.
Crown paper, size of, 298.
Cut-in notes, how adjusted, 131, 132.
Cuts, how to make ready, 280-283.
Cylinder press, invention of the, 238.
presses, making ready on, 265-275.
Dagger or obelisk, use of, 66.
Dash, use of, 63.
Dates, method of, during the French Republic, 69.
Daye, John, Anglo-Saxon types first cut by, 51.
Daye, Stephen, first printer in North America, 16.
Dedications, how displayed, 135.
position of, 135.
Degener & Weiler’s Liberty press, illustrated, 246, 247.
Delicate impression, how to produce, 281, 282.
Demy paper, size of, 298.
Derivation of English words, 324-326.
Descending letters, 59.
De Vinne’s history of the invention of printing, 12.
Diamond type, specimen of, 54.
Diphthongs, Greek, 99.
Distributing, directions for, 128, 129.
how to wash matter for, 128, 129.
pernicious effects from heating
type for, 129.
proper times for, 129.
Dividing words, rules for, 64, 65.
_Donatus_ of 1451, 11.
Double imperial paper, size of, 298.
letters, 59.
medium paper, size of, 298.
super-royal paper, size of, 298.
Drawing paper, how to be wet, 256.
Dry colours, how to use, 287, 288.
Duck’s bill, to prevent paper from slipping on the tympan, 278.
Duodecimo, or twelves, scheme for imposing sheet of, 165.
the same, without cutting, 166.
the same, two signatures, 167.
half-sheet, 168.
the same, without cutting, 168.
the same, from the centre, 169.
sheet of, from the centre, 170.
the same, long way, 171, 172.
one-third of a sheet, 171, 172.
two half-sheets, together, 173.
half-sheet, two signatures, 174.
Earl Stanhope’s printing-press, 236.
Earliest printing-press, 235.
written sounds, 83-85.
Egyptian hieroglyphics, specimens of type for printing, 83-85.
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